The US president is due in the Danish capital on Wednesday where he is expected to table a fresh US emissions target.
Mr Obama is the first world leader to attend the climate talks due to the fact he is controversially only attending the talks for a single day during the summit's first week.
Critics have suggested the US president's presence at the summit is nothing more than a stop-off on the way to Oslo to collect his Nobel peace prize.
Gordon Brown and other leaders are expected at the talks next week.
During his time in Copenhagen Mr Obama is expected to pledge the US will cut emissions by around 17 per cent below 2005 levels in 2020.
The conference received a welcome boost from the world's second-worse polluter on Monday when US officials acknowledged greenhouse gases threatened public health and the welfare of the American people.
The move is expected to allow the White House to impose compulsory emission reductions without Congress.
The Copenhagen talks, however, have been overshadowed by the leaking of emails from scientists at the University of East Anglia, which climate change sceptics suggest shows data has been manipulated to overstate the role humans have played in the warming of the planet.
Mr Obama is the first world leader to attend the climate talks due to the fact he is controversially only attending the talks for a single day during the summit's first week.
Critics have suggested the US president's presence at the summit is nothing more than a stop-off on the way to Oslo to collect his Nobel peace prize.
Gordon Brown and other leaders are expected at the talks next week.
During his time in Copenhagen Mr Obama is expected to pledge the US will cut emissions by around 17 per cent below 2005 levels in 2020.
The conference received a welcome boost from the world's second-worse polluter on Monday when US officials acknowledged greenhouse gases threatened public health and the welfare of the American people.
The move is expected to allow the White House to impose compulsory emission reductions without Congress.
The Copenhagen talks, however, have been overshadowed by the leaking of emails from scientists at the University of East Anglia, which climate change sceptics suggest shows data has been manipulated to overstate the role humans have played in the warming of the planet.
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